Micro sanctuaries can help blackbuck survive
Q. What recent strategy is being suggested to save black bucks?- Published on 30 Mar 16a. Micro-sanctuaries
b. Large sanctuaries
c. Zoos
d. National Parks dedicated to black bucks
ANSWER: Micro-sanctuaries
- Micro sanctuaries can help blackbuck survive in urban landscape.
- Providing wildlife refuges even in the form of small protected areas in the increasingly urbanised landscape can help hoofed mammals, including blackbuck, survive.
- Increasing encroachment by humans has fragmented grasslands into plantations, grazing areas and agricultural lands. The landscape is more populated by humans and cattle and is representative of most semi-arid landscapes in India.
- The researchers found that blackbuck preferred to stay in the safety of the sanctuary when food was abundant to avoid the risks associated with humans and livestock.
- But as food supply declined after the monsoon season they began to move into riskier unprotected grasslands, thus responding dynamically to seasonally changing levels of food and risks in the different parts of the landscape.
